Making maternity care safer: moving beyond risk management
An evening organised by the Royal Society of Medicine with the Forum on Maternity and the Newborn
Educational aims and objectives:
To understand the broader concept of safety.
To differentiate between risk management and improving safety.
To understand the development of a safety culture and safe teams.
To understand how reliability is developed in maternity care.
To be aware of some interventions to improve safety that have been evaluated.
To be aware of developments that have worked in increasing safety of maternity care.
To be aware of the impact of human factors and human behaviour on safety of care and the need to recognise these in improving safety.
To be aware of the role of national agencies such as the National Patient Safety Agency in improving the safety of maternity.
To develop an understanding of approaches and strategies that may be used to reduce the potential harm of health care and to improve the safety of maternity services.
This meeting is for doctors in maternity (obstetricians and GPs) and neonatal care, midwives, physiotherapists, nurses, health visitors, those engaged in clinical governance and risk management,
Trust Board Members, Commissioners of maternity care, researchers in safety, NCT antenatal teachers.
5.00 pm Registration.
5.30 pm Introduction by the chair, Professor Jane Sandall, Professor of Social Science and Women's Health, Programme Director (Innovations) NIHR King's Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centre. Do we know what works?
5.45 pm Moving to reliable maternal and perinatal care
Dr Peter Lachman, Consultant for Service Redesign and Transformation, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust
6.15 pm The National Patient Safety Agency and maternity care
Ms Anita Dougall, Maternity Lead, National Patient Safety Agency
6.45 pm Human behaviour, human performance and patient safety - the implications for maternity
Dr Nick Sevdalis, Lecturer in Patient Safety, Division of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer Imperial College London and Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality
7.15 pm Chairing the discussion: Professor Lesley Page, Visiting Professor, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London
8.20 pm Close of meeting
CPD applied for: 3 credits
Meeting administrator: Andrea Török
Academic Department
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